All Volcanoes

2655

Holocene

1413

Pleistocene

1242

primary_volcano_type

22

country

118

PRIMARY VOLCANO TYPE

Number of primary volcano type by Era: the most common type is Stratovolcano.

VOLCANOES BY REGION

Total number of volcanoes by region.

ELEVATION DISTRIBUTION

Distribution of volcano elevations by Era.

TECTONIC SETTING ELEVATION DISTRIBUTION

Elevation distribution in tectnonic zone split by cust type in each era.

Recorded Eruptions

11122

Volcanoes

927

Evidence Method Dating

20

Event type

56

VEI DISTRIBUTION BY TECTONIC ZONE

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NUMBER OF RECORDED ERUPTIONS PER YEAR (from 9000 BCE to 2020)

About

Volcanoes and eruptions are a fascinating and very interesting subject and the Smithsonian Institution (see Data section below) provide a well maintained and updated database open to the public and researchers.

This dashboard has been created as part of a data science / analytics portfolio (see github repository for code from link on top right of page). The aim of the repository is to practice visualisation with Flexdashboard on open source data.

Data

The data from Smithsonian Institution are available for use with the CC0 1.0 Universal licence and follow the Smithsonian term of use available at https://www.si.edu/termsofuse

GVP_Volcano_List_Holocene.xlsx
Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.9.4. Venzke, E (ed.). Smithsonian Institution. Downloaded 10 May 2021. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013
downloaded at https://volcano.si.edu/list_volcano_holocene.cfm

GVP_Volcano_List_Pleistocene
Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.9.4. Venzke, E (ed.). Smithsonian Institution. Downloaded 10 May 2021. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013
downloaded at https://volcano.si.edu/list_volcano_pleistocene.cfm

GVP_Eruption_Results.xlsx
Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.9.4. Venzke, E (ed.). Smithsonian Institution. Downloaded 10 May 2021. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013
downloaded at https://volcano.si.edu/database/search_eruption_results.cfm